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A gunman walked into a home and opened fire while a real estate agent was showing a home to a married couple, killing the husband. This tragic event is not the first attack on real estate agents but continues to remind agents that they must take care and precautions to protect themselves.

Although consumers easily welcomed the recent plummet in oil prices, the true impact of the drastic decline typically takes two years to see. This includes the impact on home prices in top oil producing states, but this list should help give a preview.

Ellie Mae released AllRegs Market Clarity 3.0, a new version of its business information tool, which includes a new user interface that lets users compare and contrast more than 3,000 loan products from 95 different investors.

MetLife Home Loans agreed to pay $123.5 million, after it admitted it had been aware that a substantial percentage of loans weren’t eligible for FHA mortgage insurance due to its own internal quality-control findings.

This Month in HousingWireMagazine

Wow! That was our reaction to the response we received for this year’s HW TECH100 call for nominations. This year, more than 250 companies submitted a nomination, and we’re grateful for the interest in our efforts with this unique program..

In the tech world a “stack” refers to all the elements of something. For the mortgage industry, the idea of the single stack is that one platform (digital, automated and based in the cloud) can either meet all of the functional requirements involved in assembling a mortgage, or can serve as an efficient moderator for the process via open APIs (application programming interface), which are now taking off within the mortgage industry. Read More

Nothing reeks of hypocrisy more than the regulator ignoring regulations, but the CFPB has racked up plenty of violations in the last year. And we’re not talking about small, nitpicky examples, but instances that have real-life consequences. If a lender or servicer were to violate any of these standards, they could expect swift and harsh punishment from the CFPB. Read More